Natitude
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Its a nice looking deck. Worse case its a door stop. A Mcdonalds dinner is $25 and you feel like shit afterward monetarily and physically.
Very true there!
Its a nice looking deck. Worse case its a door stop. A Mcdonalds dinner is $25 and you feel like shit afterward monetarily and physically.
Lol... yeah... all in, a whopping $25. I’ve had a hard time finding info too. This is about all I found....
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your first machine will teach you loads, so $25 is a very cheap price to pay.
for example, the machine has a time counter (not the stupid 0-999), has extra
notch detection (in upper left of cassette) for auto selection of xyz, has
bias tune, output level control (to match your tuner/phono/ipad/etc),
peak hold indicators (in case you're digitizing and need to adjust output
to 0db), rewind to stop (at 000 on tape counter), headphone jack and level
control (so you don't have to power up the monster for a tape check),
lights to show tape type selection & dolby selection and on/off
(cause you can't see in the dark)
then you can decide which you don't have you need, or have but don't
need.
Good job, and glad you decided to take a shot at the format.
One of the best parts about cassette decks, is now you have a new path to getting the music you desire at a steep discount to LP's.
Look for some CRO2 tapes recorded at 120us ("Normal BIAS") equalization, with Dolby HX. These appeared in the 90's (A&M is one label that adopted this standard). I think you will be very impressed with the sound quality!
I was referring to pre recorded tapes, actually.
Cro2 tapes are no longer manufactured, sadly. The tapes you show are decent though. Have fun making your mix tapes. The Dolby HX that your deck has was a significant improvement. It's single ended encoding, meaning no decoding upon playback. If you bring your HX encoded recordings to play on someone else's deck, or your car, etc., the benefits of HX encoding will improve the result, on any deck you play them on.